Romero

At the 2020 census, 208,066 Americans bore the surname Romero — 113th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,437.

By the numbers

People: 208,066
Rank: 113th
How common: 1 in 1,437
Per 100,000: 69.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Romero described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 88.1%
White, not Hispanic 8.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Romero

Sergio Romero (born 1987)Argentine association football player
Cesar Romero (1907–1994)American actor
Óscar Romero (1917–1980)fourth archbishop of San Salvador
George A. Romero (1940–2017)Canadian-American filmmaker
Cristian Romero (born 1998)Argentine association football player
Julio César Romero (born 1960)Paraguayan footballer
Nicky Romero (born 1989)Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer
John Romero (born 1967)American video game designer

People named Romero with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Romero

Also a first name

Romero has been given to 1,844 American babies as a first name since 1937, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.